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ggrussell wrote on 8/3/2008, 8:35 PM
Actually neither Vegas Movie Studio 8 or 9 supports burning Blueray or HD discs. Only DVDA 5 supports that which is only available in the PRO version.
Tim L wrote on 8/3/2008, 8:57 PM
RE: Actually neither Vegas Movie Studio 8 or 9 supports burning Blueray or HD discs. Only DVDA 5 supports that which is only available in the PRO version

Actually, VMS 9 Platinum is now supposed to let you burn BluRay movies from the VMS timeline (not through DVD Arch Studio). I suspect this means you can burn a hi-def movie to a BluRay disc, but without menus. But I have no firsthand knowledge of this.

Share HD Movies on Blu-ray Disc™
Vegas Movie Studio Platinum software makes it easy to share your high-definition movies on Blu-ray Disc™. Burn your movie to Blu-ray Disc™ directly from the Vegas Movie Studio Platinum timeline.

Hootie: Search the forum for other posts on this topic using VMS 8. I'm pretty sure Eugenia or somebody else has outlined how to create short (20 min?) hi-def movies on std DVD's that will play in PS3.
hootie wrote on 8/4/2008, 12:14 PM
Thanks....read a couple of the posts but a bit too complex for me!

Quite simply....how can I view an edited movie from vms 8 in Hi def for a Hi Def TV??

Streaming to a PS3 seems to be an issue as it doesn't recognise m2t files

Is there an upgrade from vms 8 to 9 or do I have to pay all over again...seems it may burn blu-ary from vms 9
ggrussell wrote on 8/4/2008, 1:52 PM
Share HD Movies on Blu-ray Disc™
Vegas Movie Studio Platinum software makes it easy to share your high-definition movies on Blu-ray Disc™. Burn your movie to Blu-ray Disc™ directly from the Vegas Movie Studio Platinum timeline.

Sounds a lot like BDAV and not BDMV. Burning directly from the Timeline kind of makes DVDA a useless addon. Beginning to sound like they will drop DVDA from the Studio version.
richard-amirault wrote on 8/4/2008, 2:12 PM
" Burning directly from the Timeline kind of makes DVDA a useless addon. Beginning to sound like they will drop DVDA from the Studio version. "

Do you expect to be able to all the things you can do in DVDA from within VMS?? I think not.
Tim L wrote on 8/4/2008, 2:45 PM
@ggrussell: "Sounds a lot like BDAV and not BDMV. Burning directly from the Timeline kind of makes DVDA a useless addon. Beginning to sound like they will drop DVDA from the Studio version."

I don't have any experience with Hi Def of any kind, nor BluRay discs, but I'm pretty confident DVD Arch Studio is not going to be dropped.

This "burn from the timeline" approach was the same way BluRay burning was initially offered in Vegas Pro, until DVD Arch 5 eventually came out with actual support for menued BluRay discs, etc. Giving VMS users limited capability to burn BluRay discs is better than no capability at all.

Only Sony Creative knows at this point if there will be a DVD Arch Studio 5 to support BluRay discs with menus for VMS users. I don't know that they've announced anything one way or the other

Tim L
ggrussell wrote on 8/5/2008, 5:45 PM
What I 'expect' doesn't really matter. But that is exactly what happens in Pinnacle Studio. There is no separate application for authoring and the 'menus' are added directly to the timeline. Just didn't make any sense to me and that's why I no longer use it.

I've seen crazier things happen in the past with so-called new versions. Just once I would love to sit on the brain-storming session of these execs making the decisions. LOL

Tim L - although burning form the timeline 'maybe' better than nothing, It's sad that Sony has ignored the market when so many other apps in the same price range CAN burn Blueray. Even some of the OEM FREE stuff can do it. it's just really sad that a company like Sony would exclude this in a consumer product. The VERY people who purchase their camcorders! I may just think twice before purchasing a Sony camcorder again.